1 00:00:02,961 --> 00:00:04,827 Previously on The X-Files: 2 00:00:05,506 --> 00:00:08,590 You sent for me. I'm here. 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,793 We're witnessing what may be the advent of a global contagion. 4 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:15,551 - Kill everyone but the chosen. - Alien DNA mixed with our DNA. 5 00:00:15,766 --> 00:00:17,758 Science given to them by an alien race. 6 00:00:18,310 --> 00:00:21,849 Neither you nor I could save mankind from self-extermination. 7 00:00:24,107 --> 00:00:25,814 I just changed the timetable. 8 00:00:26,235 --> 00:00:29,103 Get to the hospital. Help is on its way, I promise. 9 00:00:32,199 --> 00:00:35,192 That their fates were sealed since birth. 10 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:37,367 They were simply puppets. 11 00:00:37,579 --> 00:00:39,286 The world will go on. 12 00:00:40,165 --> 00:00:42,077 Just in my image instead of God's. 13 00:00:46,171 --> 00:00:47,662 Who sent you? 14 00:00:51,093 --> 00:00:52,880 You see a seemingly weak man... 15 00:00:53,095 --> 00:00:55,678 but I'm the most powerful man in the world. 16 00:00:59,226 --> 00:01:01,593 My name is Carl Gerhard Busch... 17 00:01:02,729 --> 00:01:04,686 but I've been known by many aliases... 18 00:01:04,856 --> 00:01:07,314 during my long career with the U.S. government. 19 00:01:07,526 --> 00:01:12,362 It's been a humbling job, though I'm hardly known as a humble man. 20 00:01:12,573 --> 00:01:14,986 I've been a witness to history, much of it violent. 21 00:01:15,576 --> 00:01:18,740 Much of it an abomination of the values Americans hold dear. 22 00:01:20,789 --> 00:01:23,452 I've had a privileged seat at the centers of power... 23 00:01:23,667 --> 00:01:27,752 held the reins of that power, making sacrifices few are capable of. 24 00:01:27,963 --> 00:01:30,455 Of which even fewer still are willing. 25 00:01:30,674 --> 00:01:34,384 If people knew the truth, they'd riot in the streets. 26 00:01:34,595 --> 00:01:39,511 Too much is made of the will to power, as if our will is free, our choices our own. 27 00:01:39,725 --> 00:01:45,972 Our destinies are forged in our bones, made real by a raging impulse to self-destruct. 28 00:01:49,776 --> 00:01:51,108 I'm not a bad man. 29 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:52,606 More a practical man. 30 00:01:52,821 --> 00:01:56,656 I have taken certain gifts I was given and made good men great. 31 00:01:56,867 --> 00:01:57,983 It is my greatness. 32 00:02:00,495 --> 00:02:04,785 I'm a father to two men who have figured more in the future than they might ever know. 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,333 Both would end up working for the FBI... 34 00:02:07,544 --> 00:02:11,538 both complex but dedicated men who sacrificed dearly. 35 00:02:11,757 --> 00:02:16,627 And in their dogged pursuits would end up paying a terrible price... 36 00:02:16,887 --> 00:02:19,880 searching for truths as I parceled them out. 37 00:02:20,098 --> 00:02:23,933 Truths held only by the few who know the levers of power... 38 00:02:24,144 --> 00:02:26,932 and the invisible hand controlling them. 39 00:02:27,147 --> 00:02:28,433 Is there life out there? 40 00:02:28,649 --> 00:02:32,313 Good heavens, to doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination. 41 00:02:32,694 --> 00:02:36,688 It's a failure to recognize the limits of our own stupidity. 42 00:02:36,907 --> 00:02:39,900 The nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools. 43 00:02:40,118 --> 00:02:45,034 We listen, we search, we hope for a sign, as if our eyes and ears are good enough... 44 00:02:45,248 --> 00:02:46,614 our brains large enough... 45 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:48,870 our egos small enough. 46 00:02:50,045 --> 00:02:51,456 I'm an old man now. 47 00:02:51,672 --> 00:02:54,005 I will leave my own mark upon history. 48 00:02:54,216 --> 00:02:56,503 More than presidents or tyrants. 49 00:02:56,718 --> 00:02:58,801 I don't ask for loyalty and trust... 50 00:02:59,554 --> 00:03:00,965 the fleeting bonds of men. 51 00:03:01,723 --> 00:03:06,969 I ask only for the years to show my sons and their sons I was right. 52 00:03:07,187 --> 00:03:12,307 What their father did had to be done. 53 00:03:25,997 --> 00:03:32,619 That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. 54 00:03:34,673 --> 00:03:35,709 Cut! 55 00:03:37,175 --> 00:03:39,007 Reset. Back to one, everybody. 56 00:04:46,536 --> 00:04:49,904 - What's her heart rate? - Heart rate elevated to 186 BPM. 57 00:04:50,123 --> 00:04:52,331 Ma'am, can you hear me? Can you hear me, ma'am? 58 00:04:52,542 --> 00:04:55,580 I need her blood pressure. No dilation, unresponsive. 59 00:04:55,796 --> 00:04:58,163 No indication of trauma. You found her where she is? 60 00:04:58,381 --> 00:05:00,748 She must have fallen. It's me, Scully. 61 00:05:00,967 --> 00:05:03,835 - Can you hear me? - Bit her tongue. No head trauma. 62 00:05:04,054 --> 00:05:05,545 - Does she take meds? - No. 63 00:05:05,764 --> 00:05:07,972 She's healthy, a doctor. She would've told me. 64 00:05:08,183 --> 00:05:10,675 Hey, hey, hey. We've got a gurney coming in. 65 00:05:11,937 --> 00:05:14,304 - What happened? - They said she had a seizure. 66 00:05:14,523 --> 00:05:16,731 One, two, three, lift. 67 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:21,110 Gentle. Gentle. Call the hospital with our ETA. 68 00:05:21,780 --> 00:05:23,237 Let's clear out. 69 00:05:24,282 --> 00:05:26,774 - Coming through. - I'm going with you. 70 00:05:31,164 --> 00:05:34,032 I just want someone to tell me what the hell is going on here. 71 00:05:34,209 --> 00:05:36,872 - No news, good news, Mulder. - That's BS and you know it. 72 00:05:37,087 --> 00:05:39,567 Why don't you go get some air? I'll text you when there's word. 73 00:05:39,714 --> 00:05:41,250 I don't wanna hear it from you. 74 00:05:41,466 --> 00:05:42,547 I wanna talk to Scully. 75 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:45,877 Excuse me. Is one of you Fox Mulder? 76 00:05:46,096 --> 00:05:48,884 - Is she gonna be okay? - I'm Dr. Joyet, her neurologist. 77 00:05:49,099 --> 00:05:51,591 - We've done a series of tests... - Answer my question. 78 00:05:51,810 --> 00:05:53,096 The answer is we don't know. 79 00:05:53,311 --> 00:05:55,052 What do you mean? What have you been doing? 80 00:05:55,272 --> 00:05:57,104 Mulder, why don't you let her talk? 81 00:05:57,649 --> 00:06:00,312 - I wanna talk to Scully. - She's still unconscious. 82 00:06:00,652 --> 00:06:04,692 What I know right now is that she has extremely abnormal brain activity. 83 00:06:04,906 --> 00:06:06,693 Abnormal how? 84 00:06:06,908 --> 00:06:08,490 I need to show you something. 85 00:06:09,411 --> 00:06:13,121 We ran her through everything we have here. CTs, fMRl. 86 00:06:13,623 --> 00:06:14,830 The entire protocol. 87 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:17,124 When I say abnormal... 88 00:06:17,335 --> 00:06:20,203 I don't see any damage, just gross abnormality. 89 00:06:20,422 --> 00:06:22,334 The brain is a very complex organ. 90 00:06:22,549 --> 00:06:27,465 A cascading series of subsets that begin and end with the prefrontal cortex... 91 00:06:27,679 --> 00:06:31,798 the part that makes us human. What you're seeing now is the PFC in real time. 92 00:06:32,017 --> 00:06:36,227 The reason I don't have any answers for you is I've never seen anything like this before. 93 00:06:36,438 --> 00:06:38,430 - What's this here? - The hypothalamus. 94 00:06:38,607 --> 00:06:41,224 The area we associate with fight or flight. 95 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:44,860 I don't know what I'm looking at, but I'm reading this part as signal. 96 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:46,903 I'm reading this flashing as code. 97 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:49,482 - You must be mistaken. - What do you mean "code"? 98 00:06:49,659 --> 00:06:52,823 Six dots, two dashes: "Him." 99 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:55,029 "Find him." 100 00:06:56,958 --> 00:06:58,415 This is insanity. 101 00:07:00,337 --> 00:07:01,919 I wanna see her. 102 00:07:12,557 --> 00:07:13,798 Can she hear us? 103 00:07:14,017 --> 00:07:16,930 What she needs right now is quiet, rest. 104 00:07:17,145 --> 00:07:19,933 Neurologically speaking, her brain's on fire. 105 00:07:20,148 --> 00:07:23,892 I'm sure that's what she needs, but I'm gonna stay here. 106 00:07:25,946 --> 00:07:28,438 Mulder, a moment outside? 107 00:07:35,038 --> 00:07:37,872 - You're not helping your cause. - Are you helping my cause? 108 00:07:38,083 --> 00:07:39,449 What if it was a message? 109 00:07:39,668 --> 00:07:41,284 Find who? It's absurd. 110 00:07:41,503 --> 00:07:42,835 Who would you be asking for? 111 00:07:43,254 --> 00:07:44,916 Your son. 112 00:07:47,258 --> 00:07:48,715 Why ask for him now? 113 00:07:51,054 --> 00:07:52,170 She's not dying. 114 00:07:52,389 --> 00:07:54,051 Maybe she's not... 115 00:07:54,265 --> 00:07:57,599 but I've seen you believe far more absurd things, Agent Mulder. 116 00:07:57,811 --> 00:08:00,019 Far less personal. 117 00:08:02,023 --> 00:08:03,559 Hey. 118 00:08:04,693 --> 00:08:06,480 I care about her too. 119 00:08:06,695 --> 00:08:08,732 I'm just looking for answers here. 120 00:08:08,947 --> 00:08:11,155 Then you go look for them, Skinner. 121 00:08:11,366 --> 00:08:13,824 Where I'm needed is in there. 122 00:08:22,085 --> 00:08:24,077 The thought is imperishable. 123 00:08:24,295 --> 00:08:26,537 A fear that takes hold in the gut. 124 00:08:26,756 --> 00:08:31,091 That the person you care for most in the world could be hurt by you... 125 00:08:31,302 --> 00:08:32,838 by your actions... 126 00:08:33,054 --> 00:08:35,137 the simple fact of knowing you. 127 00:08:35,348 --> 00:08:37,806 As she lies here, so helpless... 128 00:08:38,018 --> 00:08:41,602 those same thoughts and fears flood my mind with questions. 129 00:08:41,813 --> 00:08:46,353 If I caused this, how then can I make it stop? 130 00:08:54,909 --> 00:08:58,448 - You think you know who I am. - I thought you were dead. 131 00:08:58,663 --> 00:09:01,371 - Massive contagion, alien DNA. - Spartan Virus... 132 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:04,204 You'll be dead yourself, within a week. 133 00:09:12,594 --> 00:09:14,005 Mulder. 134 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:15,715 Scully. 135 00:09:18,349 --> 00:09:19,840 Mulder, you have to go. 136 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:22,347 I'm not going anywhere. 137 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:24,599 To find the Smoking Man. 138 00:09:26,149 --> 00:09:28,766 - Scully, I'm gonna get your doctor. - No, listen to me. 139 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:30,688 I've seen it. 140 00:09:30,904 --> 00:09:32,145 You've seen what, Scully? 141 00:09:32,322 --> 00:09:33,984 I know how it begins. 142 00:09:35,617 --> 00:09:36,653 There's a virus. 143 00:09:36,868 --> 00:09:38,359 The Spartan Virus. 144 00:09:39,079 --> 00:09:41,947 It shuts down our immune systems... 145 00:09:42,165 --> 00:09:43,997 - and it starts a pandemic. - Scully. 146 00:09:44,167 --> 00:09:48,332 You had a seizure. You have extremely abnormal brain activity. 147 00:09:48,546 --> 00:09:50,333 No. A plague is released. 148 00:09:50,548 --> 00:09:53,757 But there's a cure. Mulder, I'm absolutely certain about this. 149 00:09:53,968 --> 00:09:57,006 Okay. Tell me what you saw. 150 00:09:58,765 --> 00:10:00,472 You're dying, Mulder... 151 00:10:00,683 --> 00:10:02,299 and I can't save you. 152 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:04,556 Not without stem cells from our son. 153 00:10:04,771 --> 00:10:06,182 Scully, I'm fine. 154 00:10:06,397 --> 00:10:09,731 I'm here. There's no plague. You don't need to save me. 155 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:11,684 The Smoking Man is behind it. 156 00:10:11,903 --> 00:10:14,566 - The Smoking Man is dead. - No. No, he's not. 157 00:10:15,406 --> 00:10:16,567 He's alive. 158 00:10:16,783 --> 00:10:20,151 And he's in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Mulder... 159 00:10:20,370 --> 00:10:23,784 from where he unleashes hell on earth. 160 00:10:24,582 --> 00:10:28,121 Scully, I don't doubt you, that you believe what you're saying... 161 00:10:28,336 --> 00:10:31,420 but the doctor said that your brain is on fire. 162 00:10:32,257 --> 00:10:34,123 It's me, Mulder. 163 00:10:34,884 --> 00:10:37,467 I'm not an irrational person. 164 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,138 You have to find him and you have to stop him... 165 00:10:41,349 --> 00:10:43,682 before he kills you. 166 00:10:45,770 --> 00:10:49,104 I'm gonna talk to your doctor first. Okay? 167 00:11:44,913 --> 00:11:46,074 Where's the boy? 168 00:11:46,664 --> 00:11:48,997 All we want is the boy. 169 00:12:01,429 --> 00:12:02,886 I don't doubt the visions. 170 00:12:03,097 --> 00:12:04,929 It's their specific etiology. 171 00:12:05,141 --> 00:12:08,600 I call them visions, but my experience of them was very real. 172 00:12:08,811 --> 00:12:10,598 Real is a subjective judgment. 173 00:12:10,813 --> 00:12:13,055 If you believe them to be real, they are to you. 174 00:12:13,274 --> 00:12:15,482 The question is where these visions came from. 175 00:12:15,693 --> 00:12:17,813 - If the seizure caused them. - Or the exact opposite. 176 00:12:17,862 --> 00:12:20,925 - If the seizure was caused by the visions. - I don't understand the difference. 177 00:12:20,949 --> 00:12:24,238 Let's just say we are verging on the fringes of accepted neurology. 178 00:12:24,410 --> 00:12:26,493 You mean you think her visions have a source. 179 00:12:28,539 --> 00:12:30,781 This is rather sensitive territory. 180 00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:37,630 I don't have to tell you that we live at the nexus of certain government agencies. 181 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,423 CIA, DIA, NSA, DARPA... 182 00:12:40,635 --> 00:12:43,503 doing experiments on the mind even before the Cold War. 183 00:12:43,721 --> 00:12:44,962 We have files on all that. 184 00:12:45,181 --> 00:12:49,391 I've had certain patients, products of these experiments, casualties. 185 00:12:49,602 --> 00:12:52,561 I've also seen things that can only be described as superhuman. 186 00:12:52,772 --> 00:12:54,980 I'm not a part of any experiments. 187 00:12:55,191 --> 00:12:56,557 But you may have been. 188 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:58,483 You said there's a man behind this. 189 00:13:02,198 --> 00:13:03,905 - I need to get out of here. - Scully. 190 00:13:04,075 --> 00:13:07,193 - I have to get to the bottom of this, Mulder. - Scully, I'm on this. 191 00:13:08,621 --> 00:13:09,702 I'm on it. 192 00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:39,479 - Why is this happening? - Mulder's coming. 193 00:13:39,652 --> 00:13:43,396 This is going to go down badly. We are not to be found. 194 00:13:50,038 --> 00:13:53,873 It's Jeffrey Spender. Someone's looking for your son. For William. 195 00:13:54,083 --> 00:13:57,997 They came after me in my home. You may all be in danger. 196 00:13:58,504 --> 00:14:00,791 They will be coming for me. 197 00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:09,046 Mulder will be coming for me. 198 00:14:12,143 --> 00:14:14,135 If he finds me, he'll kill me. 199 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:23,276 But we are not to be found. 200 00:14:30,286 --> 00:14:32,403 If Scully was a conduit... 201 00:14:32,580 --> 00:14:36,995 if her abnormal brain activity was triggered by some external agency... 202 00:14:37,210 --> 00:14:40,294 who or what had reason to put her through the trauma? 203 00:14:40,505 --> 00:14:43,498 For what purpose and to what end was she suffering? 204 00:14:44,342 --> 00:14:46,834 Scully's story would be incredible outright. 205 00:14:47,053 --> 00:14:51,388 A dead man unleashing a plague on the world, my impending demise... 206 00:14:51,599 --> 00:14:53,886 the desperation to find our son. 207 00:14:54,102 --> 00:14:59,018 Unbelievable. If not for the fact that I've been followed since I left the hospital. 208 00:14:59,232 --> 00:15:00,439 But followed by whom? 209 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:13,114 - This is going to go down badly. - Certainly you've taken precautions. 210 00:15:13,287 --> 00:15:16,451 Of course. I've been at this too long not to have my alternatives. 211 00:15:42,733 --> 00:15:45,396 You know Mulder. He's determined. 212 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:47,898 Determined to what? Stop me? 213 00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:50,527 He can't stop what's already begun. 214 00:17:20,248 --> 00:17:22,035 William, our son. 215 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:25,459 - Your child is part alien. - They'll take him from us. 216 00:17:25,836 --> 00:17:27,168 Scully. 217 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:28,666 Agent Scully. 218 00:17:28,881 --> 00:17:30,713 Agent Scully. 219 00:17:31,259 --> 00:17:32,340 What are you doing here? 220 00:17:32,677 --> 00:17:35,511 - I've taken a risk coming here. - What is it, Spender? 221 00:17:35,721 --> 00:17:37,462 - Someone came at me. - What do you mean? 222 00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:40,095 - Trying to find your son. - What did you tell them? 223 00:17:40,309 --> 00:17:43,552 I didn't tell them anything. But they'll be coming at me again. 224 00:17:43,771 --> 00:17:45,387 I need to know where he is. 225 00:17:45,606 --> 00:17:49,566 You made me promise to hide your son. To never to tell you or anyone where he was. 226 00:17:49,777 --> 00:17:51,234 Your son was never to be found. 227 00:17:51,445 --> 00:17:54,483 - I'm asking you to break that promise. - What if they come at you? 228 00:17:54,657 --> 00:17:58,150 You don't understand. Mulder's life may depend on it. 229 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,784 I only have a name of the adoptive parents. Van de Kamp. 230 00:18:07,545 --> 00:18:10,128 - Help me find him. - I've already broken a promise. 231 00:18:10,339 --> 00:18:14,333 No. The Smoking Man, your father, he's the one that's looking for them. 232 00:18:14,552 --> 00:18:16,009 - My father's dead. - He's alive. 233 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:17,586 Dana. 234 00:18:17,805 --> 00:18:20,297 - You've gotta calm down. - I wanna get out of here. 235 00:18:20,516 --> 00:18:22,633 - Nurse, help me. - Miss Scully. Security. 236 00:18:22,852 --> 00:18:24,093 Where are my things? 237 00:18:24,312 --> 00:18:26,474 - You can't keep me here. - I fear you may seize. 238 00:18:26,689 --> 00:18:28,851 Just tell me where my things are, I'm leaving. 239 00:18:34,071 --> 00:18:35,983 I'm concerned for Scully. 240 00:18:36,198 --> 00:18:41,193 If she were to fear her boy was in danger, like Mulder, she'd stop at nothing. 241 00:18:41,412 --> 00:18:43,449 The boy is in danger. You said so. 242 00:18:43,664 --> 00:18:45,656 But I don't understand from whom. 243 00:18:45,875 --> 00:18:49,915 - You've always had your enemies. - Yes, but why go after the boy now? 244 00:18:50,296 --> 00:18:52,959 Maybe they know he's your weakness. 245 00:18:56,052 --> 00:18:59,762 - They couldn't possibly know that. - But suddenly everyone knows everything... 246 00:18:59,930 --> 00:19:01,387 of you and your plans. 247 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:04,467 My plans are airtight. And even if they were to get out... 248 00:19:04,685 --> 00:19:06,972 they would be dismissed as so much fake news. 249 00:19:07,188 --> 00:19:10,602 That's the world we live in, Monica. Every day a new disaster. 250 00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:14,605 But the one thing no one is prepared for will wipe the slate clean. 251 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:17,187 We refuse to imagine our impending extinction. 252 00:19:17,406 --> 00:19:19,443 The acceleration of the cataclysms. 253 00:19:19,659 --> 00:19:23,278 We've thrown science out the window in favor of scandal and opinion. 254 00:19:23,496 --> 00:19:27,080 Cant and all manner of ridiculous untruths. 255 00:19:27,291 --> 00:19:29,499 Civilization a joke... 256 00:19:29,710 --> 00:19:33,249 and my plan merely the punch line. 257 00:19:36,133 --> 00:19:39,422 Were Scully's visions a prophecy playing out in real time? 258 00:19:39,595 --> 00:19:43,179 Just as she foretold, the driver I had dropped had driven me seven hours... 259 00:19:43,391 --> 00:19:47,431 through three states and across the border into South Carolina. 260 00:19:54,068 --> 00:19:57,061 - Scully, what's wrong? - Nothing. Nothing's wrong. 261 00:19:57,279 --> 00:20:00,818 - Then stay off the phone. - It's okay, Mulder. I'm okay. 262 00:20:01,033 --> 00:20:02,899 No, Scully, you're not. 263 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,829 Just listen to me, Mulder. Jeffrey Spender came to me. 264 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:10,453 - What are you talking about? - He gave me a name. How to find our son. 265 00:20:10,668 --> 00:20:13,331 - Something to start on. - You can't be doing this now. 266 00:20:13,546 --> 00:20:16,755 I need to, Mulder. I've seen how it happens and how it ends. 267 00:20:16,966 --> 00:20:19,458 - Where are you? - I don't want you to worry. 268 00:20:19,677 --> 00:20:21,213 Scully, where are you? 269 00:20:22,513 --> 00:20:24,129 Standing at your desk. 270 00:20:24,348 --> 00:20:26,510 No. It's not worth it. 271 00:20:26,726 --> 00:20:30,436 - Mulder, I know what I'm doing. - Damn it. Scully. 272 00:20:30,646 --> 00:20:31,762 Where are you? 273 00:20:31,981 --> 00:20:34,849 Passing into South Carolina. I'm following a guy. 274 00:20:36,694 --> 00:20:38,435 This is what I saw, Mulder. 275 00:20:39,488 --> 00:20:40,649 How it begins. 276 00:20:41,031 --> 00:20:43,944 A confrontation between you and the Smoking Man. 277 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,822 All right, look. 278 00:20:46,162 --> 00:20:48,074 - I want you to listen to me. - No. 279 00:20:48,289 --> 00:20:50,076 This is why you need William. 280 00:20:50,750 --> 00:20:53,413 - Why I need to find him. - I'm gonna call Skinner. 281 00:20:53,627 --> 00:20:57,621 - I need you to just stay put, okay? - I have to find our son. 282 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,047 You need him... 283 00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:00,715 and I need you. 284 00:21:03,387 --> 00:21:04,628 Scully? 285 00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:06,463 Scully? 286 00:21:07,308 --> 00:21:09,391 - Find the boy. - What does he want with my son? 287 00:21:09,602 --> 00:21:11,969 He's a very special child. 288 00:21:12,188 --> 00:21:15,056 The threat is that you'll never see your son again. 289 00:21:15,441 --> 00:21:18,684 What is happening? 290 00:21:37,171 --> 00:21:40,539 - You think Scully will forgive you? - She'll come to see the beauty of it. 291 00:21:40,758 --> 00:21:44,593 The beauty of a planet returned to its savage state. 292 00:21:44,804 --> 00:21:46,420 Living as we were intended. 293 00:21:46,639 --> 00:21:50,474 - These are people you're killing. - I'm just cleaning the mess that they made. 294 00:21:51,352 --> 00:21:52,809 Doesn't mean we won't hate you. 295 00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:55,353 I've endured more hatred than you'll ever know. 296 00:21:55,564 --> 00:21:57,897 My enemies are legion. 297 00:22:00,361 --> 00:22:04,822 What price was Scully now paying for her visions and her certainties? 298 00:22:05,032 --> 00:22:07,695 What price would I pay for not turning back to help her? 299 00:22:08,285 --> 00:22:11,869 All I could do was heed her admonitions. 300 00:22:12,623 --> 00:22:14,785 Scully and her boy have a bond beyond you. 301 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,241 Beyond science. 302 00:22:16,460 --> 00:22:18,622 She's completely unaware of that. 303 00:22:18,838 --> 00:22:23,253 - Really? What makes you so certain? - It's a secret only you and I know. 304 00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:30,180 I was running on only adrenaline and Scully's premonitions. 305 00:22:30,391 --> 00:22:35,557 But was it hope I should be feeling, or fear that Scully was right... 306 00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:40,106 and a man I had come to despise, my own father, was alive? 307 00:22:40,317 --> 00:22:43,435 And if he were, he'd become mad with power. 308 00:22:43,654 --> 00:22:47,273 I owe it to Scully now to find out the truth. 309 00:22:47,741 --> 00:22:50,074 I fear only for Scully and the boy. 310 00:22:50,286 --> 00:22:52,369 And the harm my enemies may bring on them. 311 00:22:52,913 --> 00:22:54,449 I think you're in love with her. 312 00:22:58,210 --> 00:22:59,451 I worry for her. 313 00:22:59,837 --> 00:23:04,628 I always had Mulder to protect her. But now he's going to force my hand. 314 00:23:04,842 --> 00:23:08,256 - You won't shed a tear for Mulder. - Of course I will. He's my son. 315 00:23:08,470 --> 00:23:10,678 What if Scully finds the boy first? 316 00:23:16,061 --> 00:23:18,599 You and I won't let that happen. 317 00:24:44,358 --> 00:24:45,849 Federal agent! I'm armed! 318 00:24:48,737 --> 00:24:50,979 Please point the gun away. 319 00:24:51,407 --> 00:24:53,615 Hands! Hands in the air where I can see them. 320 00:24:53,826 --> 00:24:56,034 For heaven's sake, Mr. Mulder. 321 00:24:56,245 --> 00:24:58,328 All you had to do was knock. 322 00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:05,414 Agent Scully? 323 00:25:49,339 --> 00:25:51,251 Both hands on the wheel. 324 00:25:51,717 --> 00:25:54,960 - What the hell is this, Monica? - Me with a gun to your head. 325 00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:19,901 Mind if I smoke? 326 00:26:44,686 --> 00:26:45,802 Oh, my God! 327 00:26:46,939 --> 00:26:49,773 - Ma'am? Are you all right? - Call 911! 328 00:26:49,983 --> 00:26:52,270 - Ma'am, are you all right? - Be careful. 329 00:26:53,946 --> 00:26:55,983 - Ma'am, you okay? - Stand back, stand back. 330 00:26:56,198 --> 00:26:58,941 - Be careful of her head. - Here we go. I got you. 331 00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:06,288 - You've driven a long way. - Where's the Smoking Man? 332 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:08,412 - We had hoped you'd show us. - Answer me! 333 00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:11,586 - We don't know where he is. - Then who the hell are you? 334 00:27:12,506 --> 00:27:16,466 My name? I don't think it really matters at this point, do you, Mr. Mulder? 335 00:27:16,677 --> 00:27:19,761 And certainly I think I must apologize for the imposition. 336 00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:21,463 We can tell you this. 337 00:27:21,682 --> 00:27:23,969 He was here not long ago. 338 00:27:24,434 --> 00:27:26,954 We smoked too much and we drank too much in the foreign service. 339 00:27:27,146 --> 00:27:30,264 - Your erstwhile father led the way. - Answer my question. 340 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:33,691 We were all part of a syndicate involved in alien colonization. 341 00:27:33,902 --> 00:27:36,645 - Surely you knew about this business. - You're conspirators. 342 00:27:36,864 --> 00:27:40,107 Not at all. Quite the opposite. Go. 343 00:27:40,784 --> 00:27:42,275 It's okay, Mr. Mulder. 344 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:46,078 Our man here won't be troubling you any longer. 345 00:27:46,290 --> 00:27:47,371 This is my associate. 346 00:27:48,167 --> 00:27:52,411 - I see. Nobody has a name. - We've all had many names. 347 00:27:52,629 --> 00:27:53,745 You wanna see me snap? 348 00:27:53,964 --> 00:27:56,456 I don't think you're gonna fire that gun, Mr. Mulder. 349 00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:59,839 - You haven't heard what I have to say. - Let me cut to the point. 350 00:28:00,053 --> 00:28:02,010 The man we're both looking for is bent... 351 00:28:02,222 --> 00:28:06,307 - Hell-bent is what he is. - On exterminating humanity. 352 00:28:06,518 --> 00:28:10,512 You'll be pleased to know, Mr. Skinner, I'm here to offer you a deal. 353 00:28:10,731 --> 00:28:13,724 - I don't make deals. - This is a waste of time. 354 00:28:13,942 --> 00:28:17,106 You're still a fairly young man. Years to live, by my estimation. 355 00:28:17,321 --> 00:28:20,860 Try me, you son of a bitch. I'm the one with the gun. 356 00:28:22,826 --> 00:28:28,197 Not so long ago, mankind's greatest threats were war, famine, and plague. 357 00:28:28,415 --> 00:28:30,577 We've all but conquered them with hard science. 358 00:28:30,792 --> 00:28:34,536 This faith in technology, our new religion... 359 00:28:34,755 --> 00:28:41,252 when a simple pathogen would kill billions and billions. 360 00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:46,218 Your immune system will go first, but this is what will finally kill you. 361 00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:50,263 Are you a party to this? 362 00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:54,806 His plan is already in motion. 363 00:28:55,025 --> 00:28:58,939 The aliens are not coming, Mr. Mulder, just so you understand. 364 00:28:59,154 --> 00:29:02,864 No interest in a warming planet with vanishing resources. 365 00:29:03,075 --> 00:29:04,611 So just unleash a plague? 366 00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:08,285 This is no ordinary contagion. This is an alien pathogen. 367 00:29:08,497 --> 00:29:12,491 - The end of history, Mr. Mulder. - And why you have to kill him. 368 00:29:12,793 --> 00:29:15,581 The threat is that you'll never see your son again. 369 00:29:18,715 --> 00:29:20,001 What are you offering me? 370 00:29:20,801 --> 00:29:22,337 Immunity to it. 371 00:29:22,552 --> 00:29:23,668 In return for what? 372 00:29:24,388 --> 00:29:26,175 Find me the boy, Mr. Skinner. 373 00:29:27,975 --> 00:29:30,809 - He needs the boy, Mr. Mulder. - He'll never find him. 374 00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:34,137 You doubt his determination? He'll use those closest to you. 375 00:29:34,356 --> 00:29:37,815 - What does he want with my son? - That's the question, isn't it? 376 00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:40,393 He's clearly a Very special child. 377 00:29:44,992 --> 00:29:48,702 - Why the hell do you care? - We want to save humanity. 378 00:29:48,912 --> 00:29:50,869 He used to want the same. 379 00:29:51,957 --> 00:29:54,700 The aliens came to study us... 380 00:29:54,918 --> 00:29:56,625 were prepared to work with us. 381 00:29:56,837 --> 00:29:59,295 He was to be the man to lead us. 382 00:29:59,673 --> 00:30:03,963 But he became destructive, he took only his own counsel. 383 00:30:05,512 --> 00:30:09,256 Understand, I protected mankind as long as I could, Mr. Skinner. 384 00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:11,761 - I see. So you're the hero. - No one would listen. 385 00:30:11,977 --> 00:30:15,266 The aliens brought not only technology... 386 00:30:17,441 --> 00:30:19,933 they brought the seeds of our destruction. 387 00:30:20,152 --> 00:30:22,269 It's what our government would never grasp. 388 00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:27,107 And while they were adventuring in Cuba and Vietnam and Central America... 389 00:30:27,326 --> 00:30:31,821 I was busy in the Nevada desert dissecting, reverse engineering... 390 00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:36,283 playing God with life forms, the stuff of science fiction. 391 00:30:36,585 --> 00:30:42,001 I had the time, the money, and the freedom to plan for a day I knew would come. 392 00:30:44,468 --> 00:30:47,461 You have no idea this man's need to control our fate... 393 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:52,390 how effective and bold his plots and ambitions. 394 00:30:52,601 --> 00:30:55,218 Oh, my gosh, we did it. 395 00:30:55,979 --> 00:30:59,438 - That's really the moon? - Yes. That's really the moon, Jeffrey. 396 00:30:59,649 --> 00:31:01,515 That's how heroes are made. 397 00:31:01,735 --> 00:31:03,818 Roger. How does it look? 398 00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:05,103 Roger. 399 00:31:05,322 --> 00:31:09,612 It's the fourth turning, Mr. Skinner. Civilization is in its final stages. 400 00:31:09,826 --> 00:31:11,237 Alliances are crumbling. 401 00:31:11,453 --> 00:31:13,570 Truth is fluid and alterable. 402 00:31:13,789 --> 00:31:16,031 The only truth left is to survive it. 403 00:31:16,249 --> 00:31:18,411 And who chooses? You? 404 00:31:18,627 --> 00:31:22,837 - There are people with immunity. - Agent Scully has it, and her son. 405 00:31:23,048 --> 00:31:25,085 They'll survive with a select few. 406 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:26,541 What about Agent Mulder? 407 00:31:28,345 --> 00:31:29,381 Kill him... 408 00:31:29,596 --> 00:31:31,337 before he kills us all. 409 00:31:31,556 --> 00:31:35,596 - You're his son, Mr. Mulder. - He won't be expecting you. 410 00:31:35,811 --> 00:31:37,177 You know what I think? 411 00:31:37,646 --> 00:31:41,856 That's only half the story. He wants to exterminate humanity... 412 00:31:42,067 --> 00:31:45,151 - what's your budding enterprise? - The colonization of space. 413 00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:46,978 We're closer than you think. 414 00:31:47,197 --> 00:31:51,191 Building Dyson Spheres and magnificent habitable structures. 415 00:31:52,536 --> 00:31:53,902 Oh. 416 00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:56,162 That's the plan. 417 00:31:56,706 --> 00:31:58,663 A secret space program? 418 00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:00,374 I don't think so. 419 00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:04,454 I think this is a power play. 420 00:32:04,798 --> 00:32:07,757 You want me to kill him so you can implement your own plan. 421 00:32:07,968 --> 00:32:11,382 You wanna see blood in the streets. The colonization of space? 422 00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:14,805 How do you plan to do that? Transport all humanity off planet? 423 00:32:15,016 --> 00:32:18,509 Seven billion people? That's not possible. Only a chosen few. 424 00:32:18,728 --> 00:32:20,094 And you call him evil? 425 00:32:20,313 --> 00:32:23,602 We can take you with us, Mr. Mulder. You and your boy. 426 00:32:23,817 --> 00:32:26,275 You're a liar. You're all liars. 427 00:32:26,486 --> 00:32:28,318 Then no one can save us. 428 00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:30,772 I know someone who can save us. 429 00:32:30,991 --> 00:32:33,074 And I think you know her too. 430 00:32:34,411 --> 00:32:37,279 Now, get out of my way. 431 00:32:39,082 --> 00:32:41,119 I think we're finished here. 432 00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:46,921 Get your ass back in the car. I'm not finished. 433 00:33:12,574 --> 00:33:14,736 Come on, pick up the phone. 434 00:33:18,121 --> 00:33:19,737 Why do you want the boy? 435 00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:24,371 - He's very important to me. - You're asking me to betray them... 436 00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:28,083 - to betray people that I care about. - Ha, ha. No, no, no. 437 00:33:28,298 --> 00:33:31,166 I'm asking you to turn your back on the whole human race. 438 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,211 Come on. 439 00:33:45,106 --> 00:33:48,816 Are you the FBI agents? I came as quickly as I could. 440 00:33:48,985 --> 00:33:51,853 From what I understand, Agent Einstein may have saved her life. 441 00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:53,108 How did you find her? 442 00:33:53,281 --> 00:33:55,898 We were pulling into the FBI and we saw her car get hit. 443 00:33:56,117 --> 00:33:58,700 - You knew to bring her here? - From her medical bracelet. 444 00:33:58,912 --> 00:34:01,404 Well, she's lucky you found her when you did. 445 00:34:13,093 --> 00:34:15,506 - Hello? - I just wanted to tell you she's here... 446 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,427 in case you were worried. 447 00:34:19,683 --> 00:34:21,470 - Where is here? - The hospital. 448 00:34:21,685 --> 00:34:24,678 She had an accident and we're monitoring her. 449 00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:22,712 The horror I had felt. 450 00:36:22,931 --> 00:36:26,675 The gut wrench of seeing Scully fighting against the storm in her head... 451 00:36:26,893 --> 00:36:28,384 now only doubled. 452 00:36:28,603 --> 00:36:31,016 Had I come full circle to find the truth? 453 00:36:31,231 --> 00:36:33,439 Or only to uncover greater lies? 454 00:36:33,650 --> 00:36:35,767 Not one conspiracy but two. 455 00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:38,978 They threaten not only Scully, but our son. 456 00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:41,735 A drum beats in my heart. 457 00:36:56,089 --> 00:36:59,127 That man they just wheeled out on a gurney... 458 00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:00,708 I know that man. 459 00:37:00,927 --> 00:37:02,964 The Smoking Man didn't send him. 460 00:37:04,222 --> 00:37:05,508 How do you know that? 461 00:37:05,807 --> 00:37:08,641 Because the Smoking Man won't harm me. 462 00:37:09,686 --> 00:37:11,894 He's held my life in his hands. 463 00:37:12,439 --> 00:37:14,021 That... 464 00:37:14,566 --> 00:37:16,853 was something else. 465 00:37:18,111 --> 00:37:20,899 Your visions, Scully... 466 00:37:21,489 --> 00:37:22,821 they're not wrong. 467 00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:25,441 My visions... 468 00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:27,485 are from William. 469 00:37:28,621 --> 00:37:30,237 I don't know how... 470 00:37:30,457 --> 00:37:33,200 but I know that he's guiding me... 471 00:37:33,418 --> 00:37:34,625 and you. 472 00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:41,582 - They're looking for him. - The Smoking Man can't act without William. 473 00:37:41,801 --> 00:37:43,838 I know that in my bones. 474 00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:46,340 And William knows it. 475 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,427 They won't find him... 476 00:37:49,642 --> 00:37:51,178 but he will find us. 477 00:37:54,481 --> 00:37:58,441 So we just wait? 478 00:37:58,651 --> 00:38:00,483 Do nothing? 479 00:38:02,572 --> 00:38:04,814 We do our work. 480 00:38:06,493 --> 00:38:09,702 The truth still lies in the X-Files, Mulder. 481 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:18,668 They said you were attacked. 482 00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:20,708 I was calling you. 483 00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:24,250 - I didn't get your call. - Where have you been, Skinner? 484 00:38:25,512 --> 00:38:26,593 Where have you been? 485 00:38:26,805 --> 00:38:29,639 - Leave it alone, Mulder. - I asked you to look for her. 486 00:38:29,849 --> 00:38:31,715 - I looked for her. - Where did you look? 487 00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:34,184 I said leave it alone. 488 00:38:35,688 --> 00:38:37,020 You smell like smoke. 489 00:38:38,483 --> 00:38:39,724 Mulder. 490 00:38:46,115 --> 00:38:47,822 Break it up! Break it up! 491 00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:49,275 Come on. 492 00:38:50,370 --> 00:38:52,202 Whose side are you on? 493 00:38:52,747 --> 00:38:54,613 I said leave it alone, Mulder. 494 00:38:57,418 --> 00:38:59,580 What are you hiding? 495 00:39:02,131 --> 00:39:05,374 What could possibly make you think that I would ever take your deal? 496 00:39:05,593 --> 00:39:07,175 You're not betraying Scully. 497 00:39:07,387 --> 00:39:10,755 - She'll be with us. She's immune. - You get off on this, don't you? 498 00:39:10,932 --> 00:39:14,175 - Ha, ha. Manufacturing destiny? - Then why kill Mulder? 499 00:39:14,394 --> 00:39:17,762 - Mulder would kill me. - Scully will never take your offer. 500 00:39:19,774 --> 00:39:22,061 - She'll take it. - Not without Mulder, she won't. 501 00:39:22,277 --> 00:39:24,519 I'll present her with a simple choice. 502 00:39:24,737 --> 00:39:26,899 Mulder or her only son. 503 00:39:27,115 --> 00:39:29,448 So this is just vengeance. 504 00:39:29,659 --> 00:39:31,025 Oh, it's more than that. 505 00:39:32,662 --> 00:39:34,949 Dana and I have a history. 506 00:39:35,415 --> 00:39:39,375 A very important history that goes back 17 years. 507 00:39:45,508 --> 00:39:47,249 I'm glad you came. 508 00:39:48,011 --> 00:39:49,297 We'll need to take a trip. 509 00:39:50,263 --> 00:39:51,799 I'm here. 510 00:39:52,015 --> 00:39:53,301 It will require a few days. 511 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:11,816 You drugged me. 512 00:40:11,993 --> 00:40:13,859 Ha, ha. I did nothing of the sort. 513 00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:19,039 - How did I get out of my clothes and into bed? - We carried you, my housekeeper and I. 514 00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:23,369 You'd been up for over 30 hours. You were delirious. You can ask her. 515 00:40:23,588 --> 00:40:25,875 I don't know what you're up to. 516 00:40:26,883 --> 00:40:28,670 You impregnated her? 517 00:40:29,677 --> 00:40:31,885 With science, Mr. Skinner. 518 00:40:32,221 --> 00:40:34,463 Alien science. 519 00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:37,634 To create the first superhuman child. 520 00:40:37,852 --> 00:40:39,093 Mulder's not the father? 521 00:40:42,231 --> 00:40:46,441 I'm asking, who's the father? 522 00:40:47,987 --> 00:40:49,523 I am. 523 00:40:49,739 --> 00:40:51,321 William is my son.